LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 13 October 1949, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Repairs to the burnt-out fan motor at the Liverpool State mine were completed yesterday, and the mine will resum e production to-day.

The monthly meeting of the Greymouth branch of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union was held yesterday. The resignation of Mr R. Wilson, a member of the committee, was accepted. Two nominations, those of Messrs J. Doyle and U. Best were received for the vacancy. Thus an election will be held in the near future. The biannual election of a delegate to the national council was held, and Mr A. J. Panthei' was re-elected.

Mass will be celebrated on next Sunday, October 16 at Te Kinga, 8 a.m. and at Kokiri 10.15 a.m.—Advt.

So as not to interfere with Greymouth service bus time-tables, both theatres in Greymouth will commence screening earlier, in the event of a programme being longer than the usual. This decision arose from the recent complaint, when one of the picture theatres delayed two nightly programmes, which did not finish until after the departure of the buses at 10.30 p.m. In future ordinary evening sessions will ei d about seven minutes before 10.30 o’clock.

Have you seen Jeff's new bar ? Empire Hotel, Ross. —Advt.

I do not think there will be any great .demand for faulty health stamps, because ther are so many in circulation,” said a Greymouth stamp dealer yesterday, when commenting on a report that some stamp collectors in New Zealand were buying large number of health stamps in the hope of making high' profits in years to come. It would not be like the health stamps of 1931, issued at the height of the depression, when onjy about 80,000 sheets were sold, he said. These sheets were now bringing in as much as £lO each. The dealer added that the stamps should only increase by about four or five times in price but, like any other market, this was unpredictable. Very few of the stamps were identical with their neighbour in every detail, being caused by the new photogravure process incorporating a fine silk screen which was used for printing stamps, he added. It was impossible for the screen to cover a similar position on every stamp and therefore flaws were •bound to develop. It was not, as some people believed, a fault in the original. In the old system of printing all stamps were perfect facsimilies of the original.

Take “De Reszke”—See Wally Haybittle’s New Look Railway Hotel, Rumara Junction.—Advt.

One of the largest amounts handled by the Greymouth 'office of the Rehabilitation Department in one month was that in September .when 118,650 in loans was granted West Coast ex-servicemen. This gives some indication of the number of exservicemen and women still taking advantage of the rehabilitation scheme. During the month six housing loans, amounting to £7885, were made, while five farming loans totalling £7270 made up a major portion of the amount handled by the department. Several grants for business, amounting to £1745, and nine furniture loans, of a value of £7BO were also made.

Boys and Girls: The circus is coming to town, Saturday morning, at 10 a.m. “Circus Boy” at the Regent Theatre. Each child shall receive a 3d Ice Cream Free. —Advt.

A record catch of six hundred cases of fish, as the result of two days’ operations, was landed at Port Chalmers yesterday by the deep sea trawling vessel, Taiaroa. About 90 per cent, of the catch was terakihi. The fish were taken north of Moeraki. —Press Assn.